Quotes of: Argument Keyword

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Amy Tan

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

Bill Cosby

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

Elliott Abrams

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes som...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use of pornography - with pornography acting as a substitute for sexual acts rather than a stimulant. This ties in with the ar...

Sexual Politics

Prior to Flew, major apologies for atheism were those of Enlightenment thinkers (David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Friedrich Nietzsche). Major philosophers of Flew’s generation who were atheists: W. V. O. Quine and Gilbert Ryle...

There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

The Dispossessed

Don’t you think it’s a bad sign that your best argument for your beau is that nothing has been proved in court?

Firebug

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Gilead

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

Awake My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.

The Book of My Lives

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Billy Corgan

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Sean Hannity

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments a...

Peter Blair Henry

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Jacques Pepin

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

All of Grace [With CD]

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The African Queen

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

I Want

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

The Salmon of Doubt

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.

Musings on Minutiae